Home screen configurable per device

[empveg 1]

Hi team,

Love the platform but my biggest gripe has to be that I can only configure one home screen that then applies to all devices. We have a kids TV, and adults TV, and individual TVs where the home screen for one use-case is not the same for all. It would be great if we could configure the libraries for each device.

Thanks in advance!

[GrimReaper 4739]

34 minutes ago, empveg said:

It would be great if we could configure the libraries for each device.

Not sure what are you asking for here, Home Screen/Libraries are configured per-user, irrespective of device. 

[Happy2Play 9780]

Does each user have their own login?

[darkassassin07 652]

If it was per device instead of per user as it is now: every new device each user would have to reconfigure their home screen (including every single new web browser session), and admins could no longer set it for users...

 

Unless they also added a 'set default for all new devices' option. That would be quite welcome sight for plenty of settings like the default theme. (I hate how every new session I get blinded by the white settings theme)

[empveg 1]

@darkassassin07 not instead of but in tandem with. One login, multiple devices each with a uniquely saved view.

Why? becuase each TV is in a room with a specific function. E.g. the kids room has all the kids channels/streaming services on it, the games room has the sports channels and even the parents room has specific channels not on any other TV. That is, all my smart TVs have locally configured home screens, all with the same login - would be good if Emby could do the same.

[empveg 1]

@GrimReaper I appreciate libraries are configured on a per-user basis but I'd like to see the home screen configured on a per device basis. E.g. If I put kids shows in one library and sports in another and id like my kids TV to be configured to show the kids library on the home screen and the games room TV only to show sports on the home screen. They'd still be able to search all libraries for the account, but the home screen layout is per device. Makes the function of the TV align to the content.

Hope that makes sense.

[yaggermr 2]

Why not create a user for that TV called kids and give it access to what you want? Then you can customize the home screen and still have all the content.  You can create users and switch so each TV has the home screen you want. 

[ginjaninja 605]

A specific device's settings taking precedence over the user's general user's settings seems coherent. Emby could configure itself to use the most specific settings available at the time. The settings UI might be extended to allow a user to choose to set / delete device settings as opposed user settings and show the existence of device settings when present.

Do devices maintain a consistent device ID as known by Emby? eg when firmware updated, ip changes. Would need some consistency for this to work. Otherwise might be into the realms of selectable configurable multiple user [home screen] views which are sticky to the device id when device id matched.

As media and devices proliferate it not inconceivable that one device might be generally used for audio books and another for music and another for films; and having a preferred setup per device becomes more useful.

Agree in the first instance if separate users could do the trick then that's much simpler.(An automated process to copy 'adds' to watch historys from 1 defined user to another might help this avenue - the backup plugin allows this to be completed manually).

[NitroNine 29]

I would love per device configs.  It's so dumb I need another user for my music library just so that's all it displays on my phone.  I'll never watch TV/movies on my phone, only music.

[NitroNine 29]

Any update on this?

[Luke 42077]

On 10/17/2024 at 9:45 AM, NitroNine said:

Any update on this?

Hi, currently most display settings are per user. That's not to say we couldn't allow these to be per device, but there's just a lot to figure out here in terms of how to make it intuitive so that users know exactly what it's going to apply to.

[Smitty018210 143]

Oh man I would love this.Would make things so much easier!

[empveg 1]

@LukeI think if you do a user account+device=display settings you remove the need for intuition as the same user on the same device will expect the same experience everytime. E.g. I have one set of habits using my office TV vs my phone, vs my living rooms TV. If someone else comes to use the TV they would have their own account and their own settings just for that device.

You could go one step further and do a profile (being a subset of user account)+device it would remove any need for people sharing an account to sign in/out. One step at a time I suppose

[Luke 42077]

On 10/20/2024 at 10:00 PM, empveg said:

@LukeI think if you do a user account+device=display settings you remove the need for intuition as the same user on the same device will expect the same experience everytime. E.g. I have one set of habits using my office TV vs my phone, vs my living rooms TV. If someone else comes to use the TV they would have their own account and their own settings just for that device.

You could go one step further and do a profile (being a subset of user account)+device it would remove any need for people sharing an account to sign in/out. One step at a time I suppose

Right but then things won’t get carried over to other devices and many will not like that. So we’d have to make sure those bases are covered.

[Neminem 1518]

Then make a user option ( Device Profile )

[howllor 26]

I would love to be able to have different home screen settings depending on device. On my smart tv i primarily want to see my tv and movie related content on the home screen, on my phone I want my music library to take centre stage. I don't wanna have to create a whole new profile just for this...

[Tremas 197]

4 hours ago, howllor said:

I would love to be able to have different home screen settings depending on device. On my smart tv i primarily want to see my tv and movie related content on the home screen, on my phone I want my music library to take centre stage. I don't wanna have to create a whole new profile just for this...

Yes, this is where a lot of requests come in for a dedicated music app. In the car (and phone in general) i primarily want music and music playlists up front and center. For a 6-foot interface, I want Movies and TV.

To your point, I have resorted to creating a user account specific for the car that only has a music library and playlists (and ...oh how much I want a playlists added to favorites and recently played). I've done this primarily to test the experience and so far it will actually load effectively in Apple Carplay and I don't have to deal with dozens of Movie and TV playlists that I can't play while driving. 

That said, I've also resorted to setting up a separate dedicated music server (roon), but it sure would be nice to have emby work seamlessly for mobile music workflows. 

[howllor 26]

Yeah I've been solving it by using Symfonium for music playback on my phone, but from the Emby devs' point of view it ought to be a failure when users would rather use a third party app...

[empveg 1]

I went with Plex instead, it does it out of the box.

[Luke 42077]

2 minutes ago, empveg said:

I went with Plex instead, it does it out of the box.

HI, but don't you want a personal media server rather than one that puts all of your information into the cloud to sell to the highest bidder?